Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-24

1o"'h VI A'pe ~
Denmark, had aroyal cup of ten lips,
on which was recorded the names OF
guests who had drunk from tins cup.
And every Christian wonan has "A
royal cup, on which are written all the
names of those who have been enter
tanned by her In Christian style-names
not cut by human ingenuity. but written
by the hard Of a Divine Jesus. But, m,
friends, you are not To toll unnecessarily.
Though he fare be plain, cheerful
presidency of the table, and cleanliness
OF appointments will be good enough
for anybody that ever comes 10 your
house. John Harvard was invited TO
the house of a nobleman. He said II
will come on n condition, n that Il.
that you have nothing but potatoes on
the table" The requisition was com
piled with. Cyrus, king Of Persia, un
der the same circumstances. prescribed
that on the table there must be nothing
but bread. OF course, these were ex.
tremes, but they are Illustrations Of the
fact that more depends upon the ban
quetters than upon the banquet. l
want TO Int this IDEA or
CHRISTIAN ENTERTAINMENT
out of a positive bondage into a glorl-
Gus ~inducement. Every effort you iut
forth, and every dollar you give To the
entertainment of friend or foe, you give
directly to Christ. Suppose it was an
nounced that the Lord Jesus Christ
would come to this place this eek.
what woman in this house would not
be glad to wash for Him, or spread
for Him a bed, or bake bread for HIM.
There was one of old who washed for
Him, drawing the water from the well
of her own tears. He is coming. He
| will be here tomorrow. ''lnasmuch
as We have done il TO one of the least
Of these, my brethren, We have done il
to Me-" In picture galleries we have
often seen representations OF Walter
Scott and his friends, or Washington
Irving with his associates; but all those
engrr~ings will fade out, while
thrugh everlasting ages, hanging lu-
minous and conspcuo1s, will be the
picture of you and your Christian
guests.
You see we have passed out from
the trials into the rewards Of Christian
hospitality; grand, glorious, and eter-
nal. The first reward Of Christian
hospitality is the divine benedictien
When any one attends 10 this duty,
Gods blessing ONE upon him, upon
his companion. upon his children, upon
his dining-hall, upon his parlor, upon
his nursery. The blessing comes in
at the front door, and the back door.
and down through the sky lights. God
draws a long mark OF credit for sew
ices received. Christ said to His disci-
plies: ''He that receiveth you, re-
ceiveth Me; and he that giveth
u OF COLD WATER
in the name Of a disciple shall in no
wise lose his reward AS we have
had SO many things recorded against
to have written on uDfading archives,
the fact that IN the month of May, or
June, or September, or December,
1887. we made the blissful mistake of
supposing that were entertaining weak
men like ourselves, when 10! they
showed their pinions before they left,
and we fond out that they were an
gels gnawares.
Anotbc" reward comes in the good
wishes aqG prayers of guests. l do
not thir ones house ever gets over
having II good man or woman abide
there. George Whiteheld used to
scratch on the wiedow of tho Don
where ne was entertained . passage of
Scripture, and in one case, after he
left, the whole household WAS convert
ed by the reading of that passage IN
the windowpane. The woman of Shu-
nem furnished 81 little room over the
wall for Elisha, and all the ages have
heard the glorious consequences. On
a cold, stormy winter night, my father
entertained
TRUEMAN OSBORNE,
the evangelist. and through all eternity
| will thank God that Trueman Os-
borne stopped at our house. How
many of our friends have brought 20
us coincidence, and sympathy, and helpp
There is a legend told of st. Sebald.
that in his Christian rounds he used to
stop for entertainment at the house of
a poor cartwright. Coming there one
day, he found the cartwright and his
family freezing for the lack Of any
fuel. st. Sebald ordered the man to
go out and break the icicles from the
side of the house and bring them in.
and the icicles were brought into the
house and thrown on the hearth and
they began to blaze Immediately, and
the freezing family gathered around
and were warmed by them. That was
a legend; but how often have our
guests come in to gather up the cold,
freezing sorrows of our life, kindling
them INTO illumination, and warmth,
and good cheer. He who opens his
house to Christian hospitality, turns
those who are strangers into friends.
Years will 90 by. and Their, will be
great changes in YOU, and there will be
great changes in them Some day you
will be sitting in loneliness. watching a
bel eavement, and you will get a letter
in a strange hand writing, and you will
look a. the postoilice mark and say;
why. l don't know anybody living in
that city, and you will break the en-.